Sepp Blatter cleared for new term as Fifa president

Executive members Bin Hammam and Jack Warner are both suspended as the Fifa
presidential election goes ahead with incumbent Sepp Blatter as the only
candidate.

Fifa cleared a path for Sepp Blatter to win a fourth presidential term despite the corruption crisis at the heart of soccer when an ethics committee decided on Sunday he had no case to answer in a bribes-for-votes case.

The committee provisionally suspended Mohamed bin Hammam, who hours earlier had announced his withdrawal from the presidential campaign, and fellow executive committee member Jack Warner, but said Blatter would face no further investigation.

"The committee concluded that the implicated officials must be temporarily excluded from active participation in football activities to remove the potential for interference with the investigation," said ethics committee deputy Chairman Petrus Damaseb.

The allegations considered by the ethics committee concerned a meeting of the Caribbean Football Union in May 10-11 in Port of Spain, attended by CONCACAF – the governing body for football in north and Central America and the Caribbean – president Mr Warner, Mr Bin Hammam and Caribbean soccer officials.